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SUBJECT/PREDICATE
Working on
complete
sentences
SUBJECT
 Tells who or what the sentence is about
 Often a noun or pronoun
 Can be singular or compound
 Examples:
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John went to the store.
John and Stacy went to the store.
She went to the store.
They went to the store.
PREDICATE
 Includes the verb and tells:
 What a subject is doing
 States what is being done to the subject
 Expresses a state of being
 The verb may be singular or compound
 Examples:
 She swam in the ocean.
 She swam and played in the ocean.
FRAGMENTS
 Does not express a complete
 Missing a subject and a predicate
 Examples:
 Enjoyed the movie. (No subject)
 Speaking of the movies, Joe, Lucy, and I. (No predicate)
 Although I enjoyed the movie. (Dependent clause)
 Fixing Fragments :Add the missing component to make a complete sentence
 I enjoyed the movie.
 Speaking of movies, Joe, Lucy, and I saw Quakes yesterday.
 Although I enjoyed the movie, I prefer romantic comedies.
COMMA SPLICES
 Occurs when a writer places a comma between two or more
independent clauses in a compound sentence
 Example:
 Bobbie likes school, he loves English class.
 Fixing Comma Splices:
 Bobbie likes school. He loves English class. (period)
 Bobbie likes school, and he loves English class. (comma and
coordinating conjunction)
 Bobbie likes school; he loves English class. (semicolon)
 Bobbie likes school; however, he really loves English class.
(semicolon, conjunctive verb, and comma)
RUN-ON SENTENCES
 Occurs when a writer places no punctuation between
independent clauses
 Example: Bobbie likes movies John likes vacations.
 To Fix:
 Bobbie likes movies. John likes vacations. (period)
 Bobbie likes movies, and John likes vacations.
(comma/coordinating conjunction)
 Bobbie likes movies; John likes vacations. (semicolon)
 Bobbie likes movies; however, John likes vacations. (semicolon,
conjunctive adverb, and comma)